Posts tagged ‘AI Security’
From Reactive Patching to Continuous Hardening: Versa’s AI-Era Security Discipline
Versa’s secure software development practices are built for the AI era. Versa uses frontier cyber models in pre-merge security reviews, validates its software supply chain across dozens of security scanners, blocks any release with unresolved Critical or High-severity vulnerabilities, and requires engineer review of all AI-assisted code before merge.
Security Without Compromise: What the 2026 NSS Labs Cloud Network Firewall Tests Tell Us
The 2026 NSS Labs Comparative Test Report for Cloud Network Firewalls evaluated nine leading cloud-native and third-party firewalls under identical conditions, measuring security effectiveness, performance, TLS support, stability, and cost. As AI drives up encrypted traffic volumes and enables more evasive attacks, the results show that enterprises no longer have to trade protection against performance or cost. Versa NGFW earned NSS Labs’ “Recommended” rating for the second consecutive year, pairing 99.91% security effectiveness with the fastest rated throughput and the second-lowest cost per Mbps of any vendor tested.
The Trust Layer: How Versa Delivers AI-Driven NetOps with Explainability and Zero Trust Guardrails
AI in NetOps is transitioning from passive alerting to active decision support and execution, but adoption depends on whether engineers can trust it. Learn how Versa’s single-OS platform, unified data lake, Versa Verbo Copilot, and patent-pending Zero Trust MCP Server deliver AI-driven NetOps with explainability and governance built in.
The New OWASP GenAI Top 10 and Why Network Security Matters
Almost every risk in the 2026 OWASP GenAI Top 10 leaves observable artifacts at the network layer. This post walks through all ten categories, real-world incidents behind each one, and the specific SASE controls (SWG, CASB, DLP, ZTNA, RBI) that catch what app-layer guardrails miss.
Pervasive Security and Why the AI Era Needs a New Security Model
Attackers now exploit in hours while breaches take months to contain. Fragmented tools can’t close that gap. Here’s the case for Pervasive Security.
Beyond the Console: MCP and the New Operating Model for Enterprise Infrastructure
Enterprises are converging on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect AI agents to networking and security infrastructure. This piece looks at why an enterprise routing and governance layer, not just vendor-specific MCP servers, is becoming essential for provisioning, troubleshooting, and threat hunting across a multi-vendor stack.
Beyond Integration: Why a Truly Unified Branch Needs Intelligent Edge, Pervasive Security, and AI-Native Operations
Piecemeal SASE creates security debt. See how Versa unifies pervasive security, intelligent edge, and AI-native operations on one platform.
MITRE ATT&CK vs. MITRE ATLAS: Two Frameworks, One Expanding Threat Landscape
I have been in cyber security for over 25 years. And I have done my fair share of penetration testing/offensive security and I am quite familiar with the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Not long ago, I had the chance to dig into AI offensive security techniques hands-on. I assumed we would use the standard Kali-style hacking tools and follow the usual TTPs. I was wrong. We never fired up a Kali Linux instance or used a single tool from the past 30+ years. Instead, we learned how to trick the LLM into giving us information it was not supposed to. For…
The Network Is The First Line Of Defense – It’s Time To Treat It That Way
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Requires a New Approach to Network Security
AI Thought Leadership
Part 5 — Securing Tool Access: MCP Server and MCP Gateway (The “Hands” Control Point)
By Kumar Mehta
Founder and CDO, Versa Networks
March 18, 2026
Most AI incidents don’t start with “bad answers.” They start with “the AI took an action it shouldn’t have.”
That is why tool access matters as much as model access.
AI Thought Leadership
Part 4. Securing Model Access: Model Gateway and LLM Proxy (The “Brain” Control Point)
By Kumar Mehta
Founder and CDO, Versa Networks
March 11, 2026
Parts 1, Part 2, Part 3 focused on visibility, policy, and inspection. Now we are moving into infrastructure. Once AI is in production, model calls become critical traffic. If those calls bypass governance, you lose policy enforcement, visibility, cost control, and consistent inspection. A Model Gateway solves that by acting as the front door for model access. 1) What a Model Gateway is (plain English) A Model Gateway is the “front door” for model traffic. Instead of every team calling model vendors directly, all model requests go through one controlled layer. A Model Gateway can: If a model is the…
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Three predictions that will reshape enterprise security and operations in 2026
By Kelly Ahuja
CEO, Versa Networks
March 6, 2026
As we head into 2026, innovation will be shaped by three shifts: the reshaping of traffic flows through AI-driven edge computing, the decoupling of users from devices through enterprise browsers, and the emergence of real governance boundaries for autonomous AI inside the enterprise. The organizations that win won’t just adopt new tools, they’ll embrace them by modernizing architectures, strengthening security foundations, and defining clear guardrails for AI.
AI Thought Leadership
Part 3. Prompt Inspection: How You Stop Data Leaks and Prompt Injection
By Kumar Mehta
Founder and CDO, Versa Networks
March 4, 2026
Prompt inspection is not just “keyword filtering.” It is security inspection for AI interactions. The goal is to stop AI from becoming a silent data leak path or a pathway to unsafe actions.
AI Thought Leadership
Intelligent Edge: The Future of Branch and Campus in the AI Era
By Rajesh Kari
Director, Product Marketing
March 3, 2026
Distributed intelligent computing has arrived. Processing power, data, and intelligence are no longer confined to centralized cloud or data centers. Instead, they are distributed across data centers, cloud, edge locations, campuses, branches, and even devices. While prior phases of computing, internet, mobility, and cloud fundamentally reshaped how we live and work, this next phase is poised to have an even more profound impact.
AI Thought Leadership
AI-Generated Malware Like VoidLink: Why Architecture, Not Hype, Is the Real Defense — and How Versa SASE Delivers It
By Dhiraj Sehgal
Senior Director, Product Marketing
February 27, 2026
Recent reporting on VoidLink, a Linux malware framework reportedly developed almost entirely with the assistance of generative AI, marks a structural shift in the threat landscape. According to coverage in CSO Online, VoidLink’s development cycle, code organization, and modular design strongly suggest AI-assisted creation — compressing what historically required months of coordinated engineering into days of automated iteration. This is where Versa SASE, combined with GenAI usage controls, provides a grounded and enforceable defensive posture.
AI Thought Leadership
Part 2. GenAI Control: Who Can Use What, With What Data, and Under What Rules
By Kumar Mehta
Founder and CDO, Versa Networks
February 25, 2026
Control means setting clear rules for AI usage and enforcing them in a way that does not break the business. This is the point where many companies get stuck. Some teams over-block and kill adoption. Other teams do nothing and accept silent risk. The goal is neither. The goal is safe adoption by default.
AI Thought Leadership
Part 1. The New AI Perimeter: Discovery and Inventory for GenAI
By Kumar Mehta
Founder and CDO, Versa Networks
February 18, 2026
AI is showing up everywhere in the enterprise sometimes through approved tools and sometimes through “shadow AI.” The first step to securing it is simple: if you cannot see AI usage, you cannot secure it. This post explains what to discover, why it is hard, and what to do in the first 30 days.
AI Thought Leadership
Why SD-WAN Is Becoming Essential for AI Access in the Enterprise
By Rajesh Kari
Director, Product Marketing
February 13, 2026
AI applications are no longer tools used by a few teams for productivity or collaboration. They are rapidly becoming tools that help build core IT systems across every industry. From generative AI to NLP powered copilots to predictive analytics, enterprises are embedding AI into everyday operations, customer engagement and decision-making.
Company Updates
Introducing AI-Enhanced DLP capabilities in Versa Universal SASE Platform
Summary Versa has enhanced its AI DLP capabilities, comprehensive multi-format file inspection with granular metadata analysis, and intelligent redaction/tokenization features. These enhancements enable organizations to detect and prevent sensitive data leakage with unprecedented accuracy while minimizing false positives through contextual understanding. In this surgical walkthrough, we’ll dissect each of these enhancements to show exactly how Versa’s AI DLP elevates data protection from detection to intelligent prevention. AI DLP – Enhancements to Data Discovery based on ‘ML Analysis’ Versa’s new capabilities in AI-powered DLP takes data protection beyond contextual DLP by embedding advanced machine learning directly into the SASE fabric. Deployed…
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2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms
Versa has for the fourth consecutive year been recognized in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms1 and is one of only 12 vendors that met the criteria for inclusion based on the analysts’ evaluation of the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform.